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Court/Criminal

Sentence modified
Atari Markeem Hardin (1982) was ordered to serve 75 additional days May 5 in LaRue Circuit Court after testimony was heard from the LaRue County Attorney’s Child Support Office.

Costs and fees waived
Costs and fees ($410) were waived May 5 for Adam Davy Lamoreaux in a child support case. Lamoreaux lives in Salt Lake City and the court determined it would cost more to transport him back to Kentucky.

The following cases of Driving Under the Influence and the resolution of those cases are found in LaRue District Court: ADE is an abbreviation for Alcohol Driver Education, KAPS stands for Kentucky Alternative Program. A service fee is added to all DUIs and court costs are added to all charges. Birth year is in parenthesis.

Several people were indicted April 21 by a LaRue County grand jury.
Jason Gabriel Brangers (1977) of Hodgenville, was charged with two counts of theft by deception and being a second-degree persistent felony offender.
He is accused of obtaining property of another by passing checks in the amounts of $1,650 and $850 from a closed account. The alleged offenses occurred in November 2013.
Bail was set at $5,000 cash only upon condition of dusk-to-dawn curfew, no violation of the penal code and no communication with employees of Lincoln National Bank.

A Hodgenville woman was charged May 9 with possession of marijuana and use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Kristel Jankowski, 40, was involved in an argument with a family member and officers were dispatched to her home, according to Deputy Russell McCoy.
The family member said the argument involved a “large quantity of marijuana” and brought out a sandwich-size plastic bowl full of weed and paraphernalia.
Jankowski was lodged in the LaRue County Detention Center and will be arraigned Wednesday in LaRue District Court.

Hodgenville Mayor Terry Cruse is facing legal battles on two fronts: He has been indicted of abuse of public trust for alleged misuse of the city’s gas card by a LaRue County grand jury. And, he has been accused of several violations of the city’s ethics ordinance including nepotism, giving himself unauthorized raises and using city funds as his own.

Two juveniles are being charged with burglarizing Barren Run Baptist Church.
LaRue County Deputy Russell McCoy responded to a complaint of a broken window at the church on May 5. He learned that three boys had walked away from TLC, a facility that houses state agency children placed through the Cabinet for Families and Children, that day.
Two of the boys had broken a window at the church and “went in and got a two-liter bottle of pop and left,” said McCoy. They allegedly returned to TLC afterwards. No further damage was discovered inside the church.